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COMICS: CAPTAIN PHASMA

04 Phasma’s quest will take
her to some far flung
corners of the galaxy. (See
opposite page.)
05 Getting the chrome effect
on Phasma’s armor correct
was an artistic challenge.
06 The comic will also
introduce some horrifying
new monsters to Star Wars.

Phasma novel, which is all about
her past. That really helped inform
some of the choices we made.
You don’t have to read the novel
to understand anything we’re
doing, but anyone who does read
the novel will pick up on some nice
details and extra layers when they
05 come to read the comic.

What new characters will we
meet in the comic?
KT: We’ve created a First Order
pilot, a new droid, and a First
Order lieutenant. But there’s also a
whole new planet with two
warring local populations and
some really incredible monsters!
What are your favorite moments
in the series?
MC: I really love all of the fi rst
issue, because it takes place during
the last few minutes of The Force
Awakens. There is also a moment
in issue two when Phasma changes
her costume. I had fun creating
her new suit. Also, the fi rst 10
pages of issue four, but I can’t say
why, because it’d spoil them!
06
KT: Oh, man, that’s so hard to
KT: Phasma presents all the same you just how good Marco and choose! I love the ticking time
challenges as Darth Vader, actually: Andres really are! bomb aspect of the fi rst issue,
we’re never inside her head. She’s and the tiny Kylo Ren and Rey
incredibly laconic and her face is Phasma’s biography is relatively cameo! In issue two, Phasma fi ghts
constantly hidden behind a mask. unknown. What do you build a sea monster of sorts, and Marco
In the hands of a lesser artist, that on, other than her armor? absolutely killed that scene. It’s so
could have been a huge problem, KT: Even though I had to pitch cool! I also love how issue four
but Marco is so good that I think and plot the series without a ton resolves. It’s really devastating and
we often get to use the armor to of knowledge about Phasma’s thus awesome!
our advantage. past, I did have some great
The armor is both glorious and conversations with Lucasfi lm that Any chance that Captain
ominous, and through angles, really helped to flesh her out. Phasma’s adventures in comics

body language, and bunch of other Also, by the time I was writing might continue?
tricks, most of the time it ends up later issues, I had read an early MC: Never say never.
working in our favor. That tells draft of Delilah S. Dawson’s KT: I like that answer! a

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